May 1, 2011, Assassination of Osama bin Laden: President of the United States Barack Obama announces in a special TV broadcast that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant Islamist group Al-Qaeda and the most-wanted fugitive on the U.S. list, was killed during an American military operation near Islamabad, Pakistan and that his body is in U.S. custody. (CNN)
May 1, 2011, 2011 Libyan civil war: Witnesses report that Gaddafi's forces in Misrata are preparing to use chemical weapons against the civilian and rebel population. (Times of Malta) May 1, 2011, Pope John Paul II is beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in Saint Peter's Square, Rome. (The Guardian)
May 1, 2011, British head teachers vote 99.6 per cent in favour of staging a ballot on a strike over pension cuts in what would be a first national strike by the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT). (BBC)
May 1, 2011, The International Atomic Energy Agency is sending a team to Japan this month to inspect the crippled Fukushima nuclear plants and will present its preliminary evaluation of the crisis in June.(The Japan Times)
May 2, 2011, Chuck S4 Ep22: Chuck vs Agent X
May 2, 2011, Reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden: Thousands of people gather at Ground Zero site of the September 11 attacks in New York to celebrate the news that Osama Bin Laden has been killed. (SKY News)
-US political leaders across the political spectrum welcome the announcement that Osama bin Laden had been killed, congratulating American troops, the intelligence community and the White House for putting an end to the hunt for the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. (USA Today)
May 2, 2011, Syrian uprising:Hundreds of dissidents have been arrested across Syria, including in the town of Daraa and a Damascus suburb, after dozens were killed in weekend protests, activists say. (The Australian)
May 2, 2011, Sony advises that hackers may have stolen personal details of 24.6 million users of Sony Online Entertainment resulting in the site closing. (Business Insider)
May 2, 2011, President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff is hospitalised with pneumonia in São Paulo. (BBC)
May 2, 2011, The United States Army Corps of Engineers explodes a large part of a Mississippi River levee to protect the Illinois town of Cairo from floodwaters. (MSNBC)
May 3, 2011, The United Nations projects that the world population will pass 7 billion on October 31, 2011. (Reuters)
May 3, 2011, American basketball player Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls wins the NBA Most Valuable Player Award Award for the 2010-11 NBA season, the youngest player to do so. (Chicago Sun-Times)
May 3, 2011, Reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden: White House Press Secretary Jay Carney reveals that Osama bin Laden was not armed but did put up resistance when U.S. forces entered his compound. (CNN)
-US officials deliberate releasing “gruesome” photographs of the corpse of Osama bin Laden, to dispel doubt by Islamic militants that U.S. forces really killed him. (Reuters)
-US officials describe remarks by leader of militant Islamic group Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, condemning the killing of bin Laden as "outrageous", while UK Foreign Secretary William Hague criticizes Hamas for mourning bin Laden's death. (VOA News)
May 3, 2011, Syrian protests: Syrian forces and gunmen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad moved into the center of the city of Baniyas, which had been under the control of pro-democracy demonstrators in recent weeks. (The Jerusalem Post)
May 3, 2011, US Army Corps of Engineers blasts a hole in two levees along the Mississippi River, flooding some 200 square miles of Missouri farmland in an effort to save the town of Cairo, Illinois further downriver from record-breaking flood waters. (CNN)
May 3, 2011, The US city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama revises the number of missing there during the April 25–28, 2011 tornado outbreak from 340 on Monday to 80. (Alabama)
May 4, 2011, Reactions to the death of Osama bin Laden: Barack Obama decides not to release photos of Osama bin Laden following his death but Reuters releases photos taken at the Abbotabad compound. (CBS News)
May 4, 2011, Intel announces it will begin shipping the new Ivy Bridge chips, using three-dimensional design to conserve battery power, later this year. (Reuters)
May 4, 2011, 2011 Midwest floods:Despite the breach of a levee on the Mississippi River to ease flood pressure in southern Illinois, massive flooding continues from Minnesota to Louisiana and hundreds of square miles of mostly farmland in Missouri are under water. (CNN)
May 4, 2011, Two trains collide near US Highway 30 near the US city of Portland, Oregon, causing a fire and necessitating the evacuation of nearby residents. (KGW)
May 4, 2011, Experts from Chile who helped rescue 33 miners trapped for more than three months in a mine last October go to assist rescue efforts in northern Mexico, where nine workers remained trapped in a mine after an explosion. (CNN)
May 4, 2011, Experts from Chile who helped rescue 33 miners trapped for more than three months in a mine last October go to assist rescue efforts in northern Mexico, where nine workers remained trapped in a mine after an explosion. (CNN)
May 5, 2011, President of the United States Barack Obama visits the World Trade Center site in New York City to commemorate the victims of the September 11 attacks following the death of Osama bin Laden. (New York Times)
May 5, 2011, Libyan civil war Members of the multi-state coalition conducting the military campaign in Libya hold talks in Rome, Italy, and agree to set up a new fund to aid Libyan rebels, with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promising to use frozen assets of Muammar Gaddafi's regime. (Washington Post)
May 5, 2011, Claude Choules, the last known combat veteran from World War I, dies in Perth, Western Australia. (AP via MSNBC)
May 5, 2011, American playwright and theatre director Arthur Laurents dies at the age of 93. (New York Times)
May 5, 2011, Rising flood waters from the Mississippi River force evacuations around Memphis, Tennessee, as near-record flooding along the river occurs from Canada and the Dakotas down to the Gulf of Mexico. (Reuters)
May 5, 2011, Italian police seize assets worth around $1.38 billion from the Polverino mafia clan in the Naples region, and arrest 39 alleged clan members, including two who were local elections candidates from Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom party. (The Australian)
May 5, 2011, Republican Party candidates for the nomination in the 2012 United States presidential election hold their first debate in Greenville, South Carolina.
May 6, 2011, Release of Thor
May 6, 2011, Release of Beaver
May 6, 2011, Something Borrowed
May 6, 2011, Release of Jumping the Broom
May 6, 2011, Fringe S3 Ep22: The Day We Died
May 6, 2011, 2011 Syrian uprising: Protesters prepare for a "day of defiance" against the regime in Syria. (BBC)
May 6, 2011, CNET reports that a group of computer hackers is planning another cyberattack against Sony over its handling of the PlayStation Network outage. (CNET)
May 7, 2011, The United States releases videos of Osama bin Laden captured in last Sunday's raid. (MSNBC)
May 7, 2011, Jockey John R. Velazquez wins the 2011 Kentucky Derby riding Animal Kingdom. (Courier-Journal)
May 7, 2011, Spring 2011 Mississippi River Floods:The Spring 2011 Mississippi River Floods continue, with thousands of homes now ordered evacuated. (Voice of America)
-The 1927 Mississippi flooding record expected to be broken. (Slate)
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May 20, 2011, Release of Pirates of the Caribbean: Stranger Tides
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